Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-08
THE BOOM CARRIED EASTWARD.
Ford County, This state, Coming to the From,
as an Agricultural Re2lon-The County
Fast Settling up With q Happy
and prOSperopS People.

There is no state in the union today that
presents the advantages to the man of the
east, who is looking forward to that period
of time when he hopes to pull up stakes and
start west with view of making for himself
and family new abiding place, q permanent
The whole state is now on veritable boom
no particular section or locality of the state
does this boom seem to be confined to, but
the state at large. If any particular section
of this great agricultural commonwealth is
being looked into at this time the western
portion seems to be thus favored. No select
location in the west, but the entire west half
of the state is today receiving three-fourths
of the immigration that Is pouring within its
borders, and the best Of it all il. they are
finding just what they were IN search
of, cheap lands, productive
soil, u mild climate, country
wherein they can better their condition,
secure homes for themselves and children in
a country where they can proclaim their
freedom and lay aside the shackles of bond
age from the landlOrdiSm of the east and
maintain that they are free men and women.
Such is the condition of thousands that are
now here, and such might become the condi-
ton of thousands that are yet to follow.
There is one inviting spot and locality to
which we desire to call especial attention,
and that is Ford county, Kansas, one of the
largest and most productive counties in the
state, every acre Of which Is susceptible to
cultivation, and capable of producing an
abundant harvest. A county containing
ten thousand people and able to maintain
ten times that number. The question of ag-
riculture is no longer an experiment in this
county; the soil has been thoroughly tested
and its productiveness has been fully estab-
lished. The farmer has come to stay, and is
making for himself and family
a happy and contented home.
duce greater yield per acre Of corn, wheat,
oats, barley, rye, millet, Hungarian, sorghum,
broom corn, potatoes, onions, and an endless
variety of vegetables, than he can produce
on the high priced lands in the eastern
states. and the best of it all is, he owns the
land and ali that he produces, and finds a
ready market at his own door, Dodge City,
which sends it forth to the great mineral re-
gions Of the Rocky mountains
Government lands have about all been
taken and proved up on, yet these same
lands can be bought at a very low price, in
fact for a price but little above the cost of
the necessary time and money expended that
it required to receive title from government,
which are partially improved and thrown
upon the market by the restless adventurer,
who seldom holds the land he proves up on
but sells to the first fellow who may happen
on the money actually invested and this
gives away to the actual and bona flde settler,
the man that has come to stay and make a
home and q farm out Of the possession Of the
claim holder. Ford county possesses such,
who are being slowly but surely displaced
by men of limited means, practical farmers
from the east, who are clearly demonstrat-
ing the fact that Western Kansas is truly
the home Of the poor man Of the east such Is
the class of people that are coming to West
ern Kansas and Ford county is receiving her
proportional share OF them. The Ford Coun-
ty Immigration Society extends to them a
hearty welcome and bids them come IS